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TIL of Yvonne, Annette, Cecile, Emilie & Marie Dionne, the first quintuplets to have survived their infancy. Instant celebrities, they were taken from their parents by the Canadian government, who raised them for the first 9 years of their lives in a major tourist attraction known as “Quintland”

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pv9e TIL Hugh Jackman is the founder of a charity coffee company where 100% of the profits go to worldwide education, community development, and new business development.
eO1n TIL M&M’s turned down the opportunity to be featured in Steven Spielberg’s movie ET due to the flop of his previous film 1941, Spielberg then contacted a struggling Hershey’s who put $1 million into promoting the film - Within two weeks of release Hershey’s had tripled their sales.
pNXA TIL that sexual repression in Saudi Arabia have caused people, men and women alike, to turn to homosexuality. While it is punishable by death, they feel safe as the religious police never suspect them.
OGBaL TIL that the Haber-Bosch process (involving formation of ammonia from nitrogen and hydrogen) that has led to a population boom over the past century, is also responsible for deaths of millions in the WWII. Additionally, almost 50% of the nitrogen found in human tissues originated from this process.
wGbM TIL That President Kennedy promised to “end housing discrimination with a stroke of the pen” when he got in to office; when he didn’t do so, Civil Rights groups sent thousands of pens to the White House in protest.